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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Frege on Apriority (with ps)' and 'Mr Strawson on Referring'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 11. Ostensive Definition

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Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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The equivalent algebra model of geometry loses some essential spatial meaning [Burge]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

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Peano arithmetic requires grasping 0 as a primitive number [Burge]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 1. Nature of the A Priori

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Is apriority predicated mainly of truths and proofs, or of human cognition? [Burge]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

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Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]